Events of the past two years have virtually decreed that I shall wrestle with the literary muse for the rest of my days. And so, having tasted the po… - Hunter S. Thompson

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era — but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.

This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic … a blind faith in some higher and wiser “authority.” The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister … all the way up to “God.